Yes, that forecast was right, it has fallen intermittently for two days, with drier, finer, flakes as the cold increases. I gave up trying to clear the balcony on realising that there is a hard-frozen underlayer of icy stuff on which I cannot stand upright, and which only hard chipping with steel will shift. There's about four inches of looser snow on top.

Today the wind has veered easterly, even round as far as ESE, but looks like backing round to NE again as night falls, and staying that way for several days. This means more cold and higher seas, not good.

The local marine forecast suggests we can expect a further week of similar falls before it starts improving. The hardest November weather I have seen in the eleven winters I have had here.

I'm glad I don't need to leave town any time soon (AFAIK) as all the roads out will be decidedly unpleasant, though probably not impassable. Just going shopping locally will be a big enough pain.